The “Science Ninja” team WaqWaq Kingdom is a Japanese tribal bass duo, consisting of Kiki Hitomi and Shigeru Ishihara. Both are originally from Japan, lived in the UK for over a decade and are now based in Leipzig and Berlin. Out on Jahtari, a Netlabel founded in 2004 by Jan Gleichmar aka “disrupt”.
Tags: #cosmic #dub #psychedelic
Tetsumasa Okumura is a Japanese electronic musician and DJ, based in Berlin. His new ‘On The Way’ EP features the track ‘君の上 (Jump)’, with vocals by another Berlin-based Japanese DJ and producer — Peachonfuse. And this remix comes from a third Japanese DJ, Trackmaker and Painter (this time based in Nagoya): Takahide Higuchi, better known as 食品まつり(Shokuhin Matsuri) a.k.a foodman. Out now on Tetsumasa’s own Berlin-based record label SAIDAN.
‘Ema by the Sea’ is Joseph Carvell’s debut album under his Pink Shabab moniker. Joseph is a bass player and singer/songwriter from London, and bassist of indie pop quartet Batsch. The new album is available now on the Berlin-based
Karaoke Kalk label.
Tags: #alternative #dreampop #pop
USA born (Hampton, Virginia), now Berlin-based producer Adam Longman Parker released his first full-length LP ‘Colored’ last year under the artist name Afriqua. The album “is a celebration of the unifying power of Black culture through the prism of electronic music”. Released on R & S Records.
Nicolas De Araújo Peixoto is a Berlin DJ and producer Takeleave. Nicolas describes his second full length album ‘Belonging’ as “an allegory of arrival and homesickness, after his first album Inner Sea focused on the journey itself”. Out now on Berlin based label and creative collective Project Mooncircle.
Tags: #ambient #broken-beat #electronic
Catnapp is Argentinian-born, Berlin-based singer and producer Amparo Battaglia. Her single Mantis was a former #SOTD (1 May 2018). One year later and Catnapp is set to release her debut full length record ‘Break’ on Monkeytown Records. This track features the renowned Modeselektor (fellow Monkeytown Records signing and German electronic music duo consisting of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary). The album in available to pre-order on Bandcamp.
Tags: #dark #hip-hop/rap #trap
